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as a consequence of the arms race the increasing sophistication and amplification of nuclear weapons has resul. ted only in a steadily diminishing security for the big power blocks and the World. This dilemma of increasing military power and decreasing national security has no technical solution.1 (J. B. Wiesner, Special Asstt to President Kenedy and H. York, Chief Scientist of the Advanced Research project Agency of the U, S. Deptt. of Defence). 2. Solution :
Integration of Science and Spirituality is the means of overcoming this crisis. We cannot and must not stop progress of science but we must achieve it in an equalibrium between the inside and the outside. The atom bomb is in itself the most wonderful achievement and the sign of a growing power of man over the material nature. But what is to be regretted is that the material progress and mastery is not the result of and in keeping with a spiritual progress which alone has the power to contradict and caunteract the terrible danger coming from these discoveries. Although in the popular view, science refers to the knowledge of the outer world and Spirituality to the knowledge of man's spirit or self, knowledge is one and indivisible. Science has to be undertood in its original meaning of knowledge and as such it must include both knowledge of the outer world and of man's own nature. To quote Cyril Hinshelwood, “To deny the reality of the inner world is a flat negation of all that is immediate in existence, to minimise its significance is to depreciate the very purpose of living, and to explain it away is a product of natural selection, is a plain fallacy” (Presidential Address to the Royal Society, Landon, 1962). The unwavering pursuit of Science in the sense and the cultivation of the scientific spirit of approach, even with regard to the study of the nature of man is the only anti-dɔte to the maladies. afflicting manking today. Although the scientific metliodi of experiment and observation, systematisation and
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